Granted, I’m a New England homer, but what on Earth is Rex Ryan doing?! I’m not going to touch his gross mis-management of the past few games. That’s X’s and O’s and he probably knows more than I do about that. But when it comes to being a leader he has failed miserably.
Take a simple concept we all learned in grade school; Respect. All year long he has been preaching respect and demanding that the Jets be respected. Well my over-eating friend, respect is not given, it’s earned.
And so, the season begins and “Double-Rex-L” wastes no time allowing his players a little sexual harassment of a female reporter. Just because her pants were wearing tighter than…well.. his own, he felt it was no problem to be disrespectful to a woman. It didn't even cross his mind to stop his players. No, he joined in!. If any boss or manager in any other profession did that there would be HR on him quicker than Miley Cyrus on a water bong.
Dodging punishment on that one he proceeds to run his yap every week about how he’s going to crush teams and how he’s going to kick the other coaches “butt” (p.s. Rex, 45-3!) That’s not respect. You don’t see Marvin Lewis, Norv Turner, Mike Shanahan or any other coach act like that about any of their colleagues? Win or lose, they do their best to remain respectful. Rex goes out of his way to do the opposite. If Rex isn’t going to show respect how can anyone respect him.
(I bet Lane Kiffin and Rex hang out...Just a gut feeling on that.)
Further more, if his colleagues can’t respect him how can his player and coaches. Rex shows no respect, no control, and no discipline. That is why people around him find it so easy to follow his lead. No example is more clear than the repulsive display of selfish disrespect shown by the Strength and Conditioning coach this week. This dimwit, has-been, muscle head felt he had the right to trip and injure an opposing player while trying to make a play IN THE GAME! Somewhere Marty McSorley, Mike Tyson and Zinadine Zidane are watching the replay aghast at how disgusting and cheap that was.
I’m not going to rant all about how awful it was and how pathetic that man is, but rather I want to point out what Rex did about it. Nothing. Nothing at all. It was turned over to the league and the Jets will take whatever punishment is given. Just like when Braylan Edwards picked up his DUI, the Jets did next to nothing. If this was on John Gruden’s watch the coach would have been gone before the postgame press conference. Bill Parcell’s would have probably called security to escort him out during the game! But Rex is quiet. He won’t say anything about it and let someone else take action. And that is why Gruden and Parcell's led (and I emphasis LED) their team to a Super Bowl and Rex will sit back and hope his team carries him to one.
Rex is a big man, with a big mouth, and huge potential. But until he realizes respect is more important than a win or loss he’ll just remain a loud mouth joke of a leader.
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